AMD specific news
AMD EPYC Milan CPU specs leaked, Intel will have a hard time to cope upedit
AMD already impressed us a year ago with their strong EPYC Rome first 7nm based server CPUs and it continues to be adopted by a number of clients who look to get a better price to performance ratio. They also recently confirmed their EPYC Milan based Zen 3 CPUs would come in Q1 2021 and we have some solid leaks of it as well.
Publication: TechnoSports
Asus, PowerColor, and Gigabyte launches new custom cards of AMD’s Radeon 6900 XTedit
Yet more custom models of AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card have been released by the OEMs. The three models are from ASUS, PowerColor, and Gigabyte. As of now, only the information of the former two cards is available, with the third variant still being quiet about its details.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD Ryzen 5000 processor BIOS available for ASRock X370edit
The Ryzen 5000 series processors are a hot topic on the internet. A recent update indicates that ASRock X370 motherboards will be gaining access to the Ryzen 5000 processors via a BIOS update. The update still is in the alpha test, but the BIOS has already been published online.
Publication: TechnoSports
AMD’s Server CPU Share Expected to Reach 20% by the End of 2021edit
According to a Digitimes report, AMD’s server CPU market is expected to reach 20% by the end of 2021, from a paltry 2-3% just a few years back. That’s a massive increase of 20x in just around 5-6 years. Unlike the desktop and DIY market, the server market is usually harder to penetrate for a new player.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super vs AMD RX 5500 XT: Which one Should you Buy? (PROACTIVE)edit
NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 1650 Super to address the shortcomings of the vanilla 1650. The Super was faster than both the RX 570 as well as the GTX 1060. AMD’s answer was the Radeon RX 5500 XT. Initially, the 8GB variant was priced the same as the GeForce GTX 1660, making it a hard pass, while the 4GB model costed the same as the GTX 1650 Super.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD CCX and CCD in a Ryzen Processor Explainededit
AMD’s Ryzen CPUs are made up of core complexes, namely CCDs and CCXs. But what is a CCX and how is it different from a CCD in an AMD processor? Let’s have a look.
Publication: Hardware Times
Cyberpunk 2077 Fails to Utilize SMT on AMD CPUs: Intel Parts Work Fineedit
CD Projekt Red’s blockbuster title is finally out, but the game is plagued by technical issues, most notably glitches and poor performance optimization. The problems aren’t limited to the GPU, but also extend to the CPU side. One notable complication is with respect to CPU utilization with SMT turned on.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD Zen 3 based Epyc Milan Server CPU Nearly 25% Faster than Rome (Zen 2) (PROACTIVE)edit
In the single-core test, the Zen 3 powered server processor scored an impressive 1,215 points. That’s nearly 25% faster than its predecessor, the AMD Epyc 7702P which nets 990-1,000 points in the same test. While 10-15% of the total gain comes from the IPC increase, the rest comes from a considerable increase in the boost frequency: 3.7GHz vs 3.35GHz.
Publication: Hardware Times
AMD brand mentions
Laptop sales surge on work from home cultureedit
Computers have become an integral part of the modern life and form an indispensable tool for carrying out various jobs. The ongoing Corona pandemic and the ‘working from home’ concept have further reinforced their essentiality.
Publication: Navhind Times
GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUNedit
There are four face buttons, along with the View, Menu, and Xbox buttons. Two bumpers, two triggers and two thumbsticks round up the controller. You will also find an expansion port and a 3.5mm headphone jack on the bottom. A USB-C port, along with a pairing button, is on the top of the controller. It’s 2020 but Microsoft continues to have a battery enclosure of two AA cells to keep the controller running for hours.
Publication: The Economic Times
Vaio laptops teased on Flipkart, new AMD ultrabooks could launch in January 2021edit
Vaio is making a comeback into the Indian market in January 2021 and its teasers are already out on Flipkart.
Publication: BGR
From Dell Alienware Area-51m R2 to Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3, these are the best gaming laptops of 2020edit
With the new mobile RTX graphics, gaming laptops have achieved huge leaps in performance over the past couple of years. But while AMD briefly disrupted the market with new mobile Ryzen 4000 H series chips, Intel has continued its domination in laptop gaming, pushing out a new 10th Gen H series of processors to power the gaming laptops of 2020.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Competition in news
HP EliteBook 850 G8 gets upgraded to Intel’s Evo platformedit
This year many OEMs have been upgraded their notebooks to meet Intel’s Evo certification. The 11th gen Tiger Lake family has already seen many laptops’ migration, but the recent news comes from HP regarding its EliteBook series.
Publication: TechnoSports
Apple is working on a new ARM-based 32-core processors, might launch sometime in 2021edit
Apple is said to be working on a new ARM-based processor with 32 high-performance CPU cores. They might make their way into production and appear at a Mac in 2021 as stated by Bloomberg. The report by Bloomberg says that the processor might make its way to the new ‘half-sized Mac Pro’ in 2022.
Publication: The Indian Wire
Google, Intel, Dell, Citrix Form Alliance for Cloud Solutionsedit
As businesses increasingly move to the cloud, there is a need to look across the full technology stack, from silicon to the cloud, and this is an exciting opportunity to redefine technology systems and stacks as a whole, and how they work in the interconnected, internet-first world, it said The founding members of the Modern Computing Alliance include some of the most innovative companies and products across the silicon-to-cloud stack: Box, Citrix, Dell, Imprivata, Intel, Okta, RingCentral, Slack, VMware, and Zoom will be joining Chrome browser, Chrome OS, and Google Workspace, said Google.
Publication: The Economic Times
Tech giants form computing groupedit
Google, Dell and Intel have joined hands with a few other tech com-panies to form a new computing group to address the “biggest IT challenges” facing the com-panies today with integration from sil-icon to cloud. Called the “Modern Computing Al-liance”, the collective mission of the new group announced is to drive “sil-icon-to-cloud” innovation for the benefit of enterprise customers — fueling a dif-ferentiated modern computing platform and providing additional choice for inte-grated business solutions.
Publication: Telengana Today
APPLE’S ‘M1’ ADVANTAGEedit
The MacBook Air is a complete package. You get an office suite, along with tools for photo and video editing, as well as music composition. Its App Store makes it easy to find paid and free software; plus you get access to services for free books, games, podcasts, movie streaming and music downloads.
Publication: The Times of India
From Dell Alienware Area-51m R2 to Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3, these are the best gaming laptops of 2020edit
With the new mobile RTX graphics, gaming laptops have achieved huge leaps in performance over the past couple of years. But while AMD briefly disrupted the market with new mobile Ryzen 4000 H series chips, Intel has continued its domination in laptop gaming, pushing out a new 10th Gen H series of processors to power the gaming laptops of 2020.
Publication: Moneycontrol
NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super vs AMD RX 5500 XT: Which one Should you Buy? (PROACTIVE)edit
NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 1650 Super to address the shortcomings of the vanilla 1650. The Super was faster than both the RX 570 as well as the GTX 1060. AMD’s answer was the Radeon RX 5500 XT. Initially, the 8GB variant was priced the same as the GeForce GTX 1660, making it a hard pass, while the 4GB model costed the same as the GTX 1650 Super.
Publication: Hardware Times
NVIDIA Blacklists Popular YouTuber for Focusing on Rasterization more than RTX: Plus Our Own Storyedit
NVIDIA has reportedly blacklisted the popular YouTuber channel Hardware Unboxed, preventing them from receiving any future GeForce Founders Edition review samples. The reason behind this ban is that the channel is more focused on “rasterization” rather than ray-tracing.
Publication: Hardware Times
Cyberpunk 2077 Fails to Utilize SMT on AMD CPUs: Intel Parts Work Fineedit
CD Projekt Red’s blockbuster title is finally out, but the game is plagued by technical issues, most notably glitches and poor performance optimization. The problems aren’t limited to the GPU, but also extend to the CPU side. One notable complication is with respect to CPU utilization with SMT turned on.
Publication: Hardware Times
Partner in news
Laptop sales surge on work from home cultureedit
Computers have become an integral part of the modern life and form an indispensable tool for carrying out various jobs. The ongoing Corona pandemic and the ‘working from home’ concept have further reinforced their essentiality.
Publication: Navhind Times
GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUNedit
There are four face buttons, along with the View, Menu, and Xbox buttons. Two bumpers, two triggers and two thumbsticks round up the controller. You will also find an expansion port and a 3.5mm headphone jack on the bottom. A USB-C port, along with a pairing button, is on the top of the controller. It’s 2020 but Microsoft continues to have a battery enclosure of two AA cells to keep the controller running for hours.
Publication: The Economic Times
From Dell Alienware Area-51m R2 to Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3, these are the best gaming laptops of 2020edit
With the new mobile RTX graphics, gaming laptops have achieved huge leaps in performance over the past couple of years. But while AMD briefly disrupted the market with new mobile Ryzen 4000 H series chips, Intel has continued its domination in laptop gaming, pushing out a new 10th Gen H series of processors to power the gaming laptops of 2020.
Publication: Moneycontrol
Asus, PowerColor, and Gigabyte launches new custom cards of AMD’s Radeon 6900 XTedit
Yet more custom models of AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card have been released by the OEMs. The three models are from ASUS, PowerColor, and Gigabyte. As of now, only the information of the former two cards is available, with the third variant still being quiet about its details.
Publication: TechnoSports
Industry news
Data center equipment revenue grew 2% to $40.5 bnedit
Total data center infrastructure equipment revenues, including both cloud and non-cloud hardware and software, rose 2 percent to $40.5 billion in Q3 2020.
Publication: Infotechlead
Hybrid Work To Become the New Remote Work in 2021edit
Many companies are planning a new combination of remote and on-site working, giving rise to a hybrid work model in which employees can work from home, office, or anywhere.
Publication: CXO Today
Server share of Dell, HPE, Inspur, Lenovo and Huawei in Q3edit
The latest IDC report has revealed the global server market share of Dell Technologies, HPE, Inspur, Lenovo and Huawei in the third quarter of 2020.
Publication: Infotechlead
Public Cloud Services Market to Grow to $7.4bedit
Indian market for public cloud services — or, computer services offered by third-party providers over public internet including software, infrastructure and platform solutions — touched $1.6 billion in the first half of 2020 and may reach $7.4 billion by 2024, IDC has said.
Publication: The Economic Times
Nadella stresses on public-private partnershipedit
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadel- la today said public institutions and the private sector work- ing together can help devel- oping economies to recover from the pandemic and “catch up growth”. He also emphasised on the need for a “social contract” between the government, pri- vate sector and the broad civic society that allows cre- ation of harmony to navigate changes together
Publication: The Statesman
Google, Intel, Dell, Citrix Form Alliance for Cloud Solutionsedit
As businesses increasingly move to the cloud, there is a need to look across the full technology stack, from silicon to the cloud, and this is an exciting opportunity to redefine technology systems and stacks as a whole, and how they work in the interconnected, internet-first world, it said The founding members of the Modern Computing Alliance include some of the most innovative companies and products across the silicon-to-cloud stack: Box, Citrix, Dell, Imprivata, Intel, Okta, RingCentral, Slack, VMware, and Zoom will be joining Chrome browser, Chrome OS, and Google Workspace, said Google.
Publication: The Economic Times
Tech giants form computing groupedit
Google, Dell and Intel have joined hands with a few other tech com-panies to form a new computing group to address the “biggest IT challenges” facing the com-panies today with integration from sil-icon to cloud. Called the “Modern Computing Al-liance”, the collective mission of the new group announced is to drive “sil-icon-to-cloud” innovation for the benefit of enterprise customers — fueling a dif-ferentiated modern computing platform and providing additional choice for inte-grated business solutions.
Publication: Telengana Today
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